This got me curious so I thought I'd give it a try. I had a bit of difficulty as my 9600 wouldn't boot off the 7.6 CD I had handy. Tried a 6500, same deal. Stuck in a 6400 mb and no problem. I installed 7.6 on a 320gb hd attached to a Sonnet Tempo SATA card. 7.6 seemed to boot pretty fast off the SATA drive. Not sure which firmware is on the card but if the version you have isn't suitable, you can go to firmtek and download a number of firmware installers and change it.